If you just type 'ifconfig' and enter, what do you get then?
If you ping 127.0.0.1(localhost) what do you get then?
Try ping your linuxbox from within windows - do that work?

The only thing you need to do is the setup by ifconfig and then it
should work. Ping doesn't need any nameservice as long as you just use
dotted addressing e.g. 192.168.1.1

Robert Rankin wrote:

>Where I am from where I was 2 1/2 days later, as always my main problem is
>the getting started, the ping, without it I didn't know what worked and
>what didn't, and how it worked.
>
>

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